Making a new Bluesky account leads me right into how living in 2025 means we're all pretty pissed off about politics, and trying to mute or block my way to greater comfort (hearing the equivalent of "it's metastasized! It's metastasized to your bones!" fails to really do much for me, ya know?), it's just not going to work (among other reasons I think Bluesky's muting words doesn't work). I am stuck somehow relying on my ability to step past negative feelings and I'm not good at that.
WWII reference; related to how for the longest time I thought "Peter Dinklage" was something nautical like "Mark Twain"
I got a translation of "Das Boot" at a library book sale. I largely missed the anti-war part (and the part where they were in a war) in reading it as this HEROIC MEN AGAINST THE SEA epic. Arr.
Anyway, 'cause you can't print some things in Germany, parts were edited to read them yelling Heil UF (pretty much when leaving harbor), and naturally I assumed whatever UF was, heiling it was some sort of German way of letting people know that you'd cleared moorings.
D&D character idea; now that they’ve gotten rid of half elves/half orcs. Character has orc blood, but simply genetic luck means she’s not just human-passing; she’s actively slender with delicately pointed ears. She obstinately refuses to claim she is anything BUT an orc, there’s no reason why her familial pride has to come second to anyone’s bigotry.
And looking at the preview for what I’m pretty sure was an AI generated animal video on Instagram, I’m struck by how ecologically unsound it is not just to use up a crap ton of water on this shit, but also to have a public no longer sure animals and landscapes are irreplaceable with convenient glurge.
well I got suspended from Bluesky for three days, and appealed it as per below;
My email states that I "posted content that violates our Community Guidelines related to Respectful Discourse," but I have no idea what that could be. I haven't THREATENED anyone, and the closest thing I can think of is mentioning having suicidal thoughts then bypassing them, so I ask that you please either re-enstate my account or tell me what I supposedly did wrong.
oh wow
okay, so my fighter/barbarian tripped balls on whatever this magical fog is. The DM described seeing the forms of orcs hunting in the fire. I made a joke about seeing the ancestors and taking a level in Cleric.
FIVE MINUTES LATER I realized that she'd just had the setup to becoming a totem warrior as her barbarian path. She is now sure she saw, and spoke with, the spirit of the great Shivan Wurm.
uhhh not to be rude but Betty Boop horror is BETTY BOOP.
Like the most famous Betty Boop cartoons are; Betty runs away from home/visits her evil stepmama/goes to chew out the mean Old Man of the Mountain, and then for no particularly good reason, Cab Calloway shows up as a monster and sings at her.
Do NOT promise me SCARY BETTY BOOP unless you're gonna have a Danny Elfman soundtrack. He's like the only dude who could successfully write a Cab Calloway musical number in 2025.
an AMV of all Saruman's interactions with Gandalf in LotR or Hobbit, set to https://youtu.be/A9bviPgAx70
wow I'm old
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